Green Urbanocene and Parks

Mexico’s second largest city, Guadalajara has experienced some significant phenomena in recent decades in terms of climate change and a particular interaction with its natural environments and the deconstruction of several of them. In this sense, the interaction between what is now the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area and the hinterland and surrounding towns consists of several factors: the latter have been suppliers of natural resources for the city; they have been urbanized even though some neighborhoods have preserved the agricultural culture within the city; they have been subject to socioeconomic marginalization; and finally, nature within urban areas has also undergone rapid transformation during the 20th century. This has led to a change in the territory, in natural spaces, and in the collective conception of the uses and functions of parks, urban forests, and springs in the metropolitan Urbanocene of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, which I refer to in this work as the green Urbanocene.